The Path Between Us [Verse 1] The hillside spent so long Mistaking itself for stone Rain crossed over quietly And left the earth alone Roots slept with their mouths closed Under a sky gone pale The wind forgot the river And the river lost the trail No pawprint crossed the hollow No red tail lit the green Only silence held the hillside Where a path had never been Then something small as mercy Something smaller than a name Entered like a secret And the dark did not complain [Pre-Chorus] The ground said nothing Only drew it in Held the hush around it Like a promise under skin [Chorus] And there you were Red as morning Soft as fern And almost gone And there I was Still learning How to walk Where green had grown The path between us Bent the grass And brought us close At last [Verse 2] Days gathered into mosslight In all the hidden seams Invisible work was moving Through the underneath of things No sunlight had permission To touch the buried gold But something deep was trading What the broken ground could hold The stones were first to soften Then the green began to climb Mycelium and fernwork Writing life in patient lines Not bright enough for prophecy Not loud enough for fame Only the slow grammar of belonging Learning both our names [Pre-Chorus] The ground said nothing Only opened wide Made a path for little creatures That had nowhere else to hide [Chorus] And there you were Red as morning Soft as fern And almost gone And there I was Still learning How to walk Where green had grown The path between us Bent the grass And brought us close At last [Bridge] One morning, one fox wandered Where no path had lived before Red as a question moving Through the waking forest floor Another heard the fern hush Turned his head toward folded light Stepped from shade to meet him Soft-footed, shy, and bright They stood nose to nose together Like the earth had held its breath Like every root beneath them Had been reaching for this step Not fate with golden trumpets Not a map the heavens showed Just two soft, startled bodies Finding where the new path goes No one could have named the hour No bell rang in the leaves Just somewhere between two heartbeats The land remembered how to breathe [Final Chorus] And there you were Red as morning Soft as fern And almost gone And there I was Still learning How to walk Where green had grown The path between us Bent the grass And brought us close At last [Outro] And the seed asked nothing Except to be itself But quietly persuaded The whole earth into bloom So one fox found another Where the new green gathered close And the forest kept their secret In the language only roots know
